With a $1.4 billion Powerball jackpot on the line, lottery ticket sales surged across Tennessee, but we’re willing to bet the busiest stores were along the state’s border with Alabama.
It’s a stretch of Highway 431 dubbed the “Magic Mile” in Fayetteville Tennessee, that features eight different stores selling lottery tickets. All eight were packed with customers hoping to cash in on some Powerball magic.
The scene was striking: despite being on the Tennessee side of the state line, Alabama license plates dominated the parking lots. It’s because Tennessee has something the state of Alabama doesn’t —- a state lottery. “If it gets big, I come up here, you know,” Stephen Ance said, an Alabama resident who made the trip to Tennessee specifically for the jackpot…